Walkthrough (Chapter Seven) part 10

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Walkthrough (Chapter Seven)

When you approach the machine, this will be for the last time (until you have to return to grab the collectibles you couldn't yet acquire here, that is). What you have to do now is use only the Red Lens and Blue Lens. This will create a purple beam that will shoot straight ahead, allowing you to access the previously-locked room at the north end of the chamber. Once through this door, expect to catalyze a cutscene. Once again, you'll meet up with the demon Laura, who wants to stop you in your tracks. To do so, she summons forth three of the same type of monsters. These interesting creatures are entirely new to you, but thankfully, they are easy enough to kill. They're called Deadly Toys, so buckle in and get ready to battle.

Because of the fact that you're working in a really tight space here, your melee with the Deadly Toys will no doubt prove to be arduous. Deadly Toys are bulbous creatures with a plethora of powerful attacks. They also happen to be quite aggressive. Don't enter into this battle without having first revisited the healing station and neutral essence dispenser back in the main room, since full magic meters and a full health meter will go a long way here. If you happen to enter the battle without doing so, the bad news is that a checkpoint will bring you only back to the beginning of the fight, so you'll have to make due with what you came in with. The key to these kinds of fights is always to try to isolate a single target and concentrate only on that target, moving onto the next once it's dead. But in this fight, doing so is admittedly difficult.

In addition to physical attacks, the Deadly Toys can pull off a number of other obnoxious maneuvers. They can use the needles on the end of their stray stitches to attack you at moderate range, meaning that you'll never really be safe from them in such a small room. In addition, they can aggressively jump at you and damage you with earthquakes that are hard to avoid. And do you remember that black goop from an earlier boss battle? This is the substance that, if Gabriel gets caught, will mire him down temporarily, leaving him open to attack. The latter only happens near the end of the fight, so you should be safe from it for the most part, but otherwise, expect the Deadly Toys to come at you with everything they have. Liberal use of Light Magic (to heal) and Shadow Magic (to deal extra damage) will go a long, long way towards successfully ending this battle.

After you've successfully killed the three Deadly Toys Laura throws at you (or more -- they will keep respawning if you don't kill them via quicktime events), the stage will effectively be over. Suddenly, though, Laura goes all Emperor Palpatine on Gabriel and scorches him with electric charges from her hands. But then out of nowhere, Gabriel's beloved shows up, giving him the power, confidence and encouragement to keep moving forward. And move forward he does, for you'll now have access to the game's eighth chapter.

Trial

This trial is admittedly difficult. You know how we told you just a bit earlier that the Deadly Toys you fight at the end of the stage can only be permanently killed with quicktime events? Well, if you kill them manually after they start glowing, Laura will simply insert more enemies into the field. The idea here is to kill ten Deadly Toys with conventional attacks before finally killing them with quicktime events, ensuring they don't respawn. This will no doubt prove to be a challenge. Only attempt this when you're stacked with plenty of health and magic, and don't hesitate to use what special weapons you have at your disposal, including Dark Crystals.